4 After that David sent messengers that he might take her.+ So she came in to him+ and he lay down with her,+ while she was sanctifying herself from her uncleanness.+ Later she returned to her house.

15 So he wrote in the letter, saying:+ “PUT U·riʹah in front of the heaviest battle charges,+ and YOU men must retreat from behind him, and he must be struck down and die.”+

To the director. A melody of David. When Nathan the prophet came in to him after he had had relations with Bath-sheʹba.+